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...freewheeling discussion," Reed says, tongue in cheek. The would-be White House contenders - Hillary Clinton of New York, John Kerry of Massachusetts, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Joseph Biden of Delaware - cover the policy spectrum from staying the course to immediate withdrawal. Said one participant in the discussions: "This truly was a herding cats situation." And the result, predictably enough, was failure...
...both sides was heated, with the Republicans calling Democrats "defeatist" and advocating a "cut and run" policy, while Democrats talked about the importance of "redeployment," rather than the more political loaded term, "withdrawal." The Democrats in both houses continue to approach the issue nervously. While Senators John Kerry and Russ Feingold pushed their colleagues to support a withdrawal of troops, others in both the Senate and House are trying to find common ground on some kind of phased withdrawal over the next year, perhaps presenting this plan over the next week...
...possible presidential run. Her consistent support for the Iraq War has them positively apoplectic. In a May survey of 14,000 readers on the popular liberal blog Daily Kos, the New York Senator finished fifth among potential presidential contenders, earning only 2% of the vote; first was Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, who has opposed the war from the beginning, with...
...eager to congratulate the troops for knocking out such a heinous enemy, were just as eager to move on to the larger picture, arguing that al-Zarqawi's demise would have limited impact on the sectarian killings tearing Iraq apart. In the Senate, Democrats John Kerry of Massachusetts and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin are planning to offer amendments to a defense-spending bill that will call for U.S. combat forces to be withdrawn. "Our troops have done their job in Iraq, and they've done it valiantly," said Kerry, Bush's opponent in the 2004 presidential election. "It's time...
...Democrats will have a hard time reining in everyone on this score. Senator Russ Feingold still wants to censure President Bush for his warrantless domestic surveillance program, and John Conyers wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last month that made it very clear that he still thinks impeachment could be appropriate...